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3rd May 2011, 04:26 | #22 | Link |
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I had a go at making a program icon for MPC-HC. It's my 1st proper icon.
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3rd May 2011, 13:06 | #24 | Link |
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Yeah it does it looks modern which is the whole point!
For file icons, I strongly believe there should really only be two, one that states its video and the other stating its audio. The current icon library might be good in principle, but in reality it just creates a large separate dll and associated memory space use for the icon cache. WIth only an audio and video icon, they can be part of the exe. For example, the bottom of the bars in the above icon could be moved up slightly, and a stylish (maybe 3dish) 'Audio' and 'Video' below. Just an idea its all about modernisation and throwing around ideas. I still strongly believe the interface should be Windows 7-esque, considering it will probably stay like this for a while. The one thing I don't want to see are tiny play, stop etc buttons! Nice big (within prefect reason of course)! buttons would be much better. You should be able to point and click without any effort, not making sure you are lining it up properly with the buttons . In Direct3d mode, I don't see why you couldn't have a stop, pause, previous and next buttons on the left of the slider bar maybe? or put it across the top... Also, seemless playback between files would be good, I don't see why that can't be done over a reiniitialisation which currently occurs... What would be really good is that, and a little button one the player which shows (in addition to the main screen) a window of the video. This would be handy to turn on and off in case you just quickly want to look at a file and are using a secondary screen which you currently have turned off. The shader mod system should also be a lot better, as it sucks having to load a video before using it, and making sure direct3d mode is off to do it! and making sure you enter it the precise way otherwise it has the habit of self deleting the shader input... Basically, despite MPC-HC being a brilliant player, there is still massive room for improvement Anyways keep up the good ideas! |
4th May 2011, 10:51 | #25 | Link |
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What these vertical bars do represent ? An equalizer ? MPC-HC is not an audio player (for me). For me, this icon should be linked to a video player...
Your icon is nice, but for me, not adapted to MPC-HC. Last edited by pirlouy; 4th May 2011 at 18:57. Reason: orthographe |
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Now this is what I have just made. I am very pleased with it... The program icon I posted before is a bit of a 1st draft version. Should be able to improve on it sometime. EDIT: whoops I forgot to align the logo to the dead center. So that can be easily fixed. If you didn't even notice then pretend you didn't read this . Last edited by mr.duck; 4th May 2011 at 16:53. |
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6th May 2011, 04:45 | #30 | Link |
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Yes that was my intention. When done, I would want to put these icons forward for serious consideration to become the official icons. Although I've no idea how much chance there is of that. Or if even most people care at all about it. I've been working on program icons too. I've come up with 4 different versions. Here is a preview. I want to know what people think of them... |
11th May 2011, 22:19 | #36 | Link | |
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But I already found I wasn't happy with a couple of them. I remade the 48px icon and adjusted the 96px one. Updated to version 1.1... Quote:
Can anyone volunteer to make the mpciconlib.dll file? I currently have the icons in PNG format with transparency. According to clsid: But I don't know how to do that. I would need someone to walk me through it or simply make the dll for me. |
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12th May 2011, 22:12 | #39 | Link |
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this one is pretty close to what i think a gui should be like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DsphxQn_M (mplayerx on osx) Last edited by smok3; 13th May 2011 at 08:48. |
12th May 2011, 23:12 | #40 | Link |
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yeah I second that. I normally use the default MPC-HC BE edition default icons, which differentiates by colors video formats. Maybe you could change the blue color with red, green etc for mp4, mkv, avi, and the rest... It looks nice
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